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into (undry branches,having two long leaves fet oppofite at the joynts, being broad at the bottome, and compaf. 
ling the (Hike and branches, almoft like unto Thoroughwaxe,ending in a fmall point of a pale greene colour; at 
the toppei of the branches (land fundry flowers, made of foure leaves a peece, of a pale red colour,- alter .which 
come fmall round and hard blacke feede, concerned in skinnie huskes: the raoteis long white andfomewhac 
w ooddy -• this plant for the beauty of the flowers is received among others into our gardens,and was but foro 0 r. 
ten out of my former booke. 3 
The place. 
The three firft forts grow commonly through our Country by fields.hedg (ides,and ditches.-the other forts have 
beene found fome by Clufitu, and fome by others, both in Spaineand Germany. the tenth in Cana] ; Cockle is too 
plentifull in our Corne fields: and the lad in the borders of the come fields in Germany. 
Tlx Time. 
All thefe forts flower in the Sommer, fome comming earlier than others, and fotne abiding longer than 
The Names. 
I have (hewed you in the former Chapter, the Etymologieof the name Lychni,, and therefore needenotto 
repcate it here againe. All thefe are called Lychnides fylveftrer. the firft is thought by Clufiu, more fitly to agree 
unto CMelandrivm of Pliny, in his 2 6 booke and 7. chap, then the Papaver flumeum, which Label would reterre 
thereunto, and therefore entituleth it McUndrium Plmii quorundam. cMatthio/w callcth it Ocimafirum and 
Ocimoides, and fo doth Cjefner, Our antes ,and Dalechampm. Camcrariw and ‘Dodor.e.u, doe expreffe both thofe 
former forts by the name of Lychnis fylveflris alia r,~ rubra or purpurea, and Label Lychnis fylveflris flare rubel¬ 
la by the fecond, which "Bauhimu calleth Lychnis fylveflris five aquatica purpurea fimplex : but why aquatic a I 
know nor, for in our Land I have not feene it grow in any watry grounds,other than ditch banks,Stfieldfides &c 
C lu fl M calleth the third here expreffed his Lychnis fyl.tertia in his hiftory whichBauhinw calleth Lychnis rylveflri 
vifeafa rubra altera, and thinketh that to be the Mufcipula of Label-. but Camerariw in horto faith, that the figure is 
not well cut, and that he meant the Mufcipula that is common, which he there callcth Fifcago minor and is the firft 
of C./nfii ir in his hiftory, very truely fet forth. 'Bauhimu likewife maketh the Mufcipula altera of Label to be the 
A rmerm flat ijnartw, of Dadonau t, which is the fame firft Lychnis of Clufiu,, in his hiftory of plants and is 
quite contrary, for Labelm his Adverfaria faith that that Mu/cipulu, hath a yellowifli greene flower which all 
know the Ben rubrttm GMonfpelienfmm or firft Mufcipula hath not, but a red flower; Lugdunenfls calleth it AiCme 
purpurea-, Bauhimu likewife maketh a doubt whether that Mufcipula Lobelii called by others Benrubrum Maulbe 
itenfi-tm, or firft Lychnis fylveflris of Clufiwbe, not the Fla, Conftantinopolitanu, minoroi Gefner! Idoenotfinde 
him to name Confiantinopolitanw , but Flo, ab Hiero[olymis mayor & m ; mr ) which otherwise he called Ocimoidet 
peregrmum ; the greater I verily thinkc is the Lychnis Chulcedonica fimplex as we call it; but the leffer fort fure- 
ly cannot be tne Ben ritbrum or Mufcipula, for Gefner there faith that they both endure the winter after the be' 
ring of feede which this Mufcipula doth nor; and againe he faith his leffer fort hath Rariore, fla,e, butafew 
flowers, and that hath many; but I thinke as 1 faydbefbre that it maybe the Flo, Csccincm of Luodunenli, 
1 he fourth is CUifuu his fecond Lychnis, or calicuUsftriati,- the fifth is the ninth Lychnis of Clnflus in his hiftorv" 
Which Lugdunenfi, calleth Ocimoides mima five album, and Camemrim Odontic, quorundum flora Candida being of 
the fame kinde, (have fee forth in my former booke, under the name of Lychnis plumaria fyhcflri, fimplex 
whereof it IS likely Tabermontunw maketh mention, and Bauhimu putteth zeyrnd upon ir, as beinga plant hee" 
neverfaw or heard of before, and (whereof there is a fort that bearcth double flowers) which 1 there favis 
a\\ei Armorer,apratenfi,,&p,c„culi. Clufiu, letteth them both forthby the name of Odontitis flini, Rmplici 
for, &-plena fore - the fixt is the eight Lychnis of Clufiw in his hiftory of plants, which he made the firft in his 
Spamjh obfervations .Bauhimu calleth it Lychnis fyhcflri, plurihw folds fimul junhi, ■ the feventh is calledbv 
Cameras,issinhortoOcimmdesmaprum^nd Lychni, nomfora annua. Befler in the great garden booke of fr fie. 
tenfis calleth it Ocimafirum nelliflorum flare albo ; the eighth is Clufiw his Lichni,fyhcflri quinta, and with Baa. 
htnus Lychnis fyl. lanuginofa major-, the leffer of this (ort is the fixt of tlnflw, as it is fet downe 
in the next chapter fave one j the ninth is called by divers diverfely, fome Lychnis fegetum, Lychno.de, feoetum 
Trpw calleth it Gtthago and,shis Roumanians: 6 . genus. <Dodo„ tw , Nigellaflrum.wd Anthemon, as Rued,us 
before him called it Anthemonjohofum. Brunfelflm, and Lacuna Nigella vulyaris, butvery erronioufly (forifit 
have any teiemblance to NigelU t t is more in the blacke feede than in the flower or any thing elle) and therefore 
Manhsolu, calkthit PJeudomelanthvim asidiversothersfincehim; Fnchfitts and Corda tookeittobe Lohumbvx. 
as erronioufly .Hants,nw ^calleth it Lychns fegetum major,becanle he maketh the Alfmeeorniculata.of Clufiu, and all 
others to be bis Lychnufegetum minor, the tenth is the leventh Lychni, f y l. 0 f clufius, which he alfo calleth Cre- 
t,ca for that he had the feede from Candy- the eleventh Label f 0 calleth as it is in the title,& Lugdunenfi, from him- 
the lalt is called Ifatu fyke fins by Label, mdVacaria rubra, as it is alfo by Gefner, Dodonxus and others • CM™ 
by Angmllara.Thamecnemonby Cordus, Cstndurdum Plmii by fome, and Perfoliata rubra by others, as’ Gefner in 
toft* Taith,^whereupon Bauhum calleth It lychnis fegetum fo/ii,‘Perfoliate-, the Italian, call all thefe forts of wild 
Campions Octmoil- , and Bafilico falvattco, the French and Dut,h men are expreffed in the Chapter before 
The Vertues. 
fjT e l b l V f wllite , flo ''' £rs of * h ' fe h £ be ?< t0 fla y the whites in women, as they doe the red flowers 
for their red conrfes, but with what good fucceffe I know not; an old tradition being potent with manV that all 
effeftuall in thofe difeafes: but it is found true by experience, that thedecoftion 
? n J u e , g ° run h,doth ftay inward bleedings, and applyed outwardly doth the like: the fan e alfo bcin? 
dr nM° th hdpe „ e?pe „ urine that ; 5 (topped,and gavell or the ftone in thefeines or kidnies: the feede dmnk in 
ZIn’l°h 1 r' v u sbc °a two drams > purgech the body of chollericke humors, as ‘Diofcoride, faith, and that it 
rh P p f thofe .^that are ftung by Scorpions, or other venemous beafts, and may as I fayd before, be as eftifluall foe 
the Plague, 1:is f a) . d to be (° cffeftuaUagai n ftthe Scorpion> thst this herfc y e caftu > ° put unto a Scorpion, 
hke r : " "u 0 ': V f f ry u S ° 0d r Ufe m ° ld fores > ulcers . ca ^ ers > fiflulaes a ' ld *e 
worketh by the confirming of moyft humours falling into them; and 
J . u? ° fll “ mors offending them;but the Cockle isofefpecial property in all thedileafes 
afore fayd, and befides doth heals the itch, fcabbes, and running fores, ^ property in an tne^aiieaies 
